Muslim Interpreters in Colonial Senegal, 1850-1920

Mediations of Knowledge and Power in the Lower and Middle Senegal River Valley

von Tamba M'Bayo

234 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book explores the intermediary functions of Muslim interpreters in Senegal to affirm their status as active historical agents in the historiography on French colonial rule in West Africa, including themes such as the intersection of knowledge and power in a colonial context and Muslim identity formation and French assimilation.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Afrikanische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9781498510004
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.04.2019
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Lexington Books